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Moores Rowland Partners - Yacht Division is located in the heart of the Darsena of Viareggio, Italy, very close to a vast sample of the most prominent yachting shipyards in the world. Its remarkable experience within the yachting industry and the entire underlying supply chain amounts to more than 25 years.Moores Rowland Partners offers a wide choice of consulting and assistance services concerning Tax&Vat, Customs and Maritime matters to owning companies, shipyards, brokers and to any other operators involved in the nautical industry. Its high-standard and wide-scale advisoy service covers any of the activities regarding both pleasure and commercial yachts and superyachts, i.e. constructing, sale&purchase, refitting, chartering, flagging and incorporation.

SuperyachtNews.com has received word that the amended Stability Law 2016 has been approved by Italy's parliament and will now go before the Senate. If passed, it would lead to the abolition of the tax on the possession of yachts.

SuperyachtNews.com has been informed that the much maligned 22 per cent tax rate on temporary berthing in Italian waters has been officially reduced to 10 per cent, in line with the country's other tourism sectors.

Following a new decree entering into force on 12 September, the Italian nautical industry body, UCINA, has announced that marina resorts
in Italy are now eligible for a VAT rate of 10 per cent,
reduced from 22 per cent, in line with the benefits already afforded to
other hospitality sectors...

Confusion surrounding the correct bunkering procedures of superyachts
operating in Italian waters has reached its peak. SuperyachtNews.com speaks to Ezio Vannucci, partner at Italian law firm
Moores Rowland Associati, who reveals that clarification on the
situation is in the process of bein...

Flavio Briatore is to stand trial on charges of tax evasion and falsely registering his superyacht, 'Force Blue' as a a charter vessel. The alleged amount of duties dodged stands at €5 million, according to Genoa's public prosecutor's office.

In August, Italy’s Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport released a circular clarifying arrival and departure procedures within Italian waters. However, three months on, the superyacht industry is still in a state of confusion.